Did You Even Check the SCCS?

Is this the only way to do things?

A question I took for granted when younger. After all, when everyone’s been doing it this way for a generation, there is no other way in the mind of the beholder.

But we’ve got to go back to the drawing board.

We’re trying to invent a new culture, here, fit for a godlike purpose.

For years, I’ve checked any given claim about the universality of a given norm against the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample.

186 cultures.

From every major region and biome.

It’s relieving, because you’ll be able to tell immediately when someone has never bothered to check.